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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
  • "million united states dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
• This email message is a next of kin scam.
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • petuk50@myway.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: "Peter Brown" <fuil_kk1@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: petuk50@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:38:52 -0700
Subject: Hello Dear Friend.

From Peter Brown
Crockford Lane Basingstoke
Hants RG24 8WB. London UK.
TEL: 00 44 704 010 9475
Private eMail: petuk50@myway.com

Hello Dear Friend.

My name is Peter Brown from London the United Kingdom. I am the personal account officer to Late Mr Neal Walker who is a citizen of USA but living here in London with his family before his sudden death.

This mail is written to solicit your assistance to be presented as next of kin to my Late Client Neal Walker of 75 Oregon city Oregon, U.S.A. He made a fixed Deposit valued at US$6 Million (Six Million United States Dollars Only) with Chase Manhattan Bank of London. Unfortunately
he lost his life aboard Egypt Air Flight 990, which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on October 31, 1999. To see the details of this plane crash, Please click on the (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm)  He left no clear beneficiary as Next of Kin but all documents relating to the claim of this fund will be processed in your name as soon as we agreed together.

The Governing Body of the Bank here in london has contacted me on this matter and I am yet to provide the Next of Kin to lay a claim on  the Fund.  Under a clear and legitimate agreement with you, I shall seek your consent to be presented as the next of Kin without any risk involved so that my late Client's Fund will NOT be confiscated by the Government. For the sake of transparency on this matter, You are free to make immediate contact with me for further information related to this matter.  Also send me Your full names, Your full contact address, Your private telephone & Mobile numbers etc for processing the claims in your name.

Thank you very much for your anticipated acceptance while i expect your prompt response. My Private eMail is: petuk50@myway.com  and call me immediately at: 00 44 704 010 9475 for more information. Please click on the  (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/502503.stm) to see
the details of this plane crash,

Yours faithfully,

Peter Brown, From London..

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